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Show Monday, January 17, 2000. THE DAILY HERALD, (www heraldextra.com), Provo. Utah Page AS Internet ready Justice Department cays discrimination lavsuits tripled during '90s cases has been due largely to or government for alleged civil Americans with Disabilities Act ed for 65 percent of the overall By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN to change the increase" in employment rights violations: 747 cases in of 1990 and the Civil Rights Act increase in civil rights cases. Litras wrote. and 672 in 1998. of These are cases alleging an cases between private parties," law amended five employer discriminated in The lawsuits bureau statistician Marika WASHINGTON Aided channels Litras wrote. sharply from percent of older federal employment ing, promotion, firing, pay or new federal laws, private; laws. It also crimination to cases all Civil rights privileges because of a person's rights complaints suits alleging discrimination in allowed plaintiffs to win in in TV world the percent doubled more varieties than race, religion, sex. more than workplace fact, the federal pensatory and punitive Aiiociated Press Writer 1990 F.X. by of By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK Ready or not, the Internet is coming to the television set, potentially transforming a passive pastime into an engaging endeav- in 1990 F governcivil rights defen- ment was a dant much more often than a plaintiff. It was accused of bias in 9.2 percent of all civil rights lawsuits in 1990, compared with 5.6 percent in 1998. New civil rights laws paved the way for the explosion in job bias cases, the including federal government lawsuits 1990 to 21,540 in 1998. The growth in civil rights against a business, individual hir- dis- 4 1998. 1.6 In from 1990 to 1998, from 18,793 to 42,354. They accounted for 8.6 percent of the 217,879 federal civil cases in 1990, compared with 16.5 percent of all 256,787 civil cases in 1998. Only a tiny fraction were Sunday. The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said job bias lawsuits filed in U.S. District Courts soared from 6,936 in 1991 d fell all civil law- tripled during in the 1990s, the said Justice Department 1991, . Government-initiate- com- al origin, age, disability, or exercise of legal rights. Lawsuits alleging bias in housing, hotels, restaurants or other public, accommodations accounted for 2 percent of the increase in civil rights cases, rising from 342 cases in 1990 to 838 cases in 1998. ages in certain cases, permitted jury when plaintiffs trials sought monetary damages, and overturned seven Supreme Court rulings, "broadening the scope of employment practices considered Litras wrote. nation- color, dam- discriminatory," Employment cases account or. 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